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Treating The Staff Like Family

by Tim F|  September 29, 200710:22 am| 20 Comments

This post is in: Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin.

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The hits keep coming for State Dept. IG Howard Krongard:

Two career investigators in the office of State Department Inspector General Howard J. Krongard have charged that they were threatened with firing if they cooperated with a congressional probe of Krongard and his office.

Correct me if I have this wrong, but I think that the law discourages threatening employees for cooperating with an investigation.

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  1. 1.

    Punchy

    September 29, 2007 at 10:27 am

    It’s really none of our buisness, Tim. At least he hasn’t sued these two….yet.

  2. 2.

    laneman

    September 29, 2007 at 10:31 am

    You are not mistaken – It is blatently illegal.

  3. 3.

    wasabi gasp

    September 29, 2007 at 10:36 am

    Yawn. GOP. Schiavo. Don’t bite the tube that feeds you.

  4. 4.

    whippoorwill

    September 29, 2007 at 10:47 am

    Correct me if I have this wrong, but I think that the law discourages threatening employees for cooperating with an investigation.

    Law, whose law? The law is what King George the Malevolent says it is. Those two career investigators were obviously traitorous democrats. Everybody knows the State Department is a nest of vermin hippies and peace-mongers who’d sell out this country in a heartbeat with gestures of good will and other friendly non-sense. Everybody knows Crony Krongard is doing a heck-of-a job at keeping war alive. So just get off his back, OK.

  5. 5.

    PaulW

    September 29, 2007 at 11:21 am

    Correct me if I have this wrong, but I think that the law discourages threatening employees for cooperating with an investigation.

    Oh, but the thing is, being a member of the Bush Administration exempts you from such petty trivialities as the law. After 7 years, you’d think you’d learn that…

  6. 6.

    jake

    September 29, 2007 at 11:28 am

    Protection for whistle-blowers? Pish-posh. Haven’t you heard that neineleven changed everything?

  7. 7.

    Dreggas

    September 29, 2007 at 11:28 am

    I get it now, all the labor laws and employee protection laws weren’t made to protect us from unscrupulous business owners, they were meant to protect us from republicans!

  8. 8.

    Helena Montana

    September 29, 2007 at 11:35 am

    So it’s illegal. This is the Bush admin. we’re talking about. It’s not like the Congress is suddenly going to grow a spine and do something about it. Sheesh, get a grip!

  9. 9.

    John Cole

    September 29, 2007 at 11:52 am

    Liberal media.

    What about all the investigations he didn’t impede?

  10. 10.

    Dreggas

    September 29, 2007 at 12:48 pm

    The State Dept: When you’re here you’re family.

  11. 11.

    RSA

    September 29, 2007 at 2:14 pm

    The State Dept: When you’re here you’re family.

    I think it reads better with a capitalized Family, but maybe that’s just my Italian ancestry talking.

  12. 12.

    scarshapedstar

    September 29, 2007 at 3:05 pm

    Time for the all-purpose wingnut defense:

    Pleasure of the President! Nyah, nyah!

  13. 13.

    Xenos

    September 29, 2007 at 3:20 pm

    It may well be possible that Condi is even more incompetent than Rummy. I never cease to be amazed by this crowd.

  14. 14.

    TenguPhule

    September 29, 2007 at 8:10 pm

    Once again, Shoot them all and then start over. Only way to solve this.

  15. 15.

    craigie

    September 29, 2007 at 8:45 pm

    I thought the Conservatarian mantra was: If you didn’t do anything wrong, you shouldn’t have anything to hide.

    Were they not serious when they said that?

  16. 16.

    incontrolados

    September 29, 2007 at 10:10 pm

    Cooperating with congress is wrong.

    Get with the program craigie.

    And what kind of name is that?

  17. 17.

    Davis X. Machina

    September 29, 2007 at 10:22 pm

    Lex est quod rex vult.

    Throw away your Federalist Papers, and invest in a nice translation of Bossuet. And party like it’s 1599.

  18. 18.

    merlallen

    September 30, 2007 at 2:49 am

    Every thing a repubican’t does is legal, get with the program, dude.

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  1. Balloon Juice says:
    October 7, 2007 at 1:29 pm

    […] Answer: anybody who noticed that the State Dept. Inspector General cares a lot more about litigating his own family than doing his damn job. […]

  2. Balloon Juice says:
    December 7, 2007 at 9:30 pm

    […] What finally drove “cookie” Krongard to quit? Under normal circumstances being credibly accused of actively covering up departmental abuses that range from ordinary contracting fraud to slavery would do it. If that didn’t work his, how should we say, innovative personnel policies would finish the job. […]

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